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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following can astrally project?

2. Where does Ridoc bear his relic?

3. Which of the following creatures does Violet recall reading about?

4. Of what does Xaden smell?

5. How many riders are lost in the attack from which Violet is ordered to flee?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do flight leathers bear minimal insignia?

2. Why is Violet taken off of breakfast duty?

3. Why does Amber not bear a rebellion relic, despite her ancestry?

4. How does Liam know Xaden?

5. Why will Dain be allowed to retain command of his squad after Threshing?

6. Why does Imogen begin strength training Violet?

7. Why are scribes hooded in the novel?

8. What does Neema request from General Sorrengail?

9. Why is Violet apprehensive about competing against First Wing in the War Games?

10. What does Travonte request from General Sorrengail?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 2

In the novel, some characters are given but one name, while others are given first- and surnames, and still others are accorded names and titles. What significance, if any, accrues to patterns of naming in the novel? If no significance accrues, what purpose might be served by the patterns of naming in the novel? How does Fourth Wing bear as much out?

Essay Topic 3

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Yarros’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

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